More British women are Gathering to join ISIL Takfiri group in Iraq and Syria, with many apparently involved in torturing and even ordering the execution of Iraqi and Syrian girls captured as sex slaves, a report revealed.

A ruling by a Kenyan court to ban hijab in a church-sponsored school has outraged Muslim parents and scholars, who deemed the ruling a setback for the freedom of worship in the Eastern African country.

The Qatar women's basketball team forfeited a game at the Asian Games on Wednesday after being refused permission to wear the hijab, saying they were taking a stand against what they say is a discriminatory policy against Muslim women.

Startling details have surfaced of British female jihadists forcing captured Iraqi women into sexual slavery at brothels run by militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), British media reported Thursday.

Offering West Virginia students in Marshall University a chance to try the Islamic headscarf, a group of Muslim students held a hijab event to raise awareness about the Islamic headscarf and correct misconceptions surrounding it.

A recent survey has found that veiled British Muslim women have more positive body image, less affected by beauty standards depicted in media and place less importance on appearance than women who don't wear hijab.

Members of Malaysia's largest political party United Malays National Organization have called for allowing hijab for Malaysia Airlines stewardesses and an alcohol ban, calls that were endorsed by state officials and MAS managers.

The al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) released pictures from their military Camp in Mosul of Iraq, showing men and children posing and training with guns. ISIL terrorist group have targeted children for recruitment by providing military training in school settings through free schooling campaigns that include weapons training and giving them dangerous tasks, including suicide bombing missions.

In honor of International Women's Day, leaders and rights activists around the world have been praising the role of women in toppling dictators in Tunisia and Egypt and in the ongoing protests in Libya.

The Palestinian ministry of prisoners' affairs said that Israel has kidnapped more than 10,000 Palestinian women since 1968, 850 of them during Al-Aqsa intifada, appealing to the international community and women's rights groups to pay attention to the issue of Palestinian female prisoners.

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) and Jewish settlers have killed 1337 Palestinian children since the Aqsa intifada in late September 2000 until late 2010, the Ahrar center's research and media unit said in a documentary report.